Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Horner will leave the walls of the Radcliffe Yard behind tomorrow in favor of the Great Wall of China...
...Courses on ethics are not the principal means by which a professional school of administration can promote the ethical sensitivity of its students," he wrote. "We certainly do not think it would be wise or successful to start courses on ethics in the abstract...we favor incorporating ethical issues into our regular courses...
...hope that in answering these questions," Raiffa told the class, "You will favor the course of action embracing a higher moral standard...
...game warmup before any women's basketball game will tell the whole story. You see the sanitary socks, pulled high and just below the knee, underneath the striped uniform socks. And then you see the shot. Not the jumping grenade-throw that the women hoopsters sometimes favor, but an easy-arching, back-spinning jump shot that usually doesn't bother with the backboard, much less...
...Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged with an 8,000-word final statement that mildly surprised most observers. While hardly radical in tone, it contained...